The steel skeletons in our reinforced concrete buildings share a fatal flaw: corrosion. As water seeps in through microcracks ...
Nearly 40% of failure of concrete structures occurs due to corrosion of embedded steel reinforcement. For this reason, corrosion control of steel reinforcement is essential to prevent damage and ...
Civil engineers at Purdue University are developing a new generation of corrosion-resistant plastic bars reinforced with glass or carbon fibers that promises to double the time between expensive ...